Form of 5.625%


 Exhibit 4.4 
  

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW
YORK CORPORATION (THE “DEPOSITARY”), OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. 
  
 UNLESS THIS
CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS
IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE
OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
  
 SAFEWAY INC. 
 5.625% Note Due 2014

  

			
	 No. Y-1
	 	$250,000,000
		
	 	 	CUSIP No. 786514 BM 0

  
 SAFEWAY INC., a
Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received promises to pay to 
  

					
	 	 	CEDE & CO.	 	,     or     registered
	 assigns,
	 	 	 	 
			
	 the principal sum of
	 	TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION	 	 
	DOLLARS	 	 	 	 

  
 on August 15, 2014 and to pay interest
thereon from August 12, 2004, or the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or provided for, as the case may be, payable on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing February 15, 2005, at the rate of 5.625% per
annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest is permitted by law) to pay interest at the rate per annum borne by this Security on any overdue principal and on any
overdue installment of interest until paid. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date will be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the regular record date for such 






 interest, which shall be the preceding February 1 and August 1, respectively (whether or not a Business Day). Any such
interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Company, notice whereof shall be given to the Trustee and the Holders not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, or be paid
at any time in any other lawful manner. Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
  
 Principal of and interest on the Securities will be payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. The transfer of the Securities will be registrable, the Securities may be presented for exchange, and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of this Security and the Indenture may be
served, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose (which initially will be the Corporate Trust Office located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration); provided that, unless
all of the outstanding Securities are Global Securities, the Company will at all times maintain an office or agency for such purposes in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York; and provided, further, that, except as provided in the next
sentence, payment of interest may, at the option of the Company, be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto. If this Security is a Global Security, the interest payable on this Security will be paid to Cede & Co., the
nominee of the Depositary, or its registered assigns as the registered owner of this Security, by wire transfer of immediately available funds on each of the applicable interest payment dates. 
  
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security which
further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
  
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

  






 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be signed manually or by facsimile by its
duly authorized officers. 
  
 Date: August 12, 2004 
  

			
	SAFEWAY INC.
		
	BY	 	BY
		
	
 Robert L. Edwards
	 	
 Robert A. Gordon

	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	 	Senior Vice President and General Counsel

  
 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE 

OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 This is one of the 5.625% Notes due 
 August 15, 2014 described in the 
 within-mentioned Indenture. 
  

	
	 THE BANK OF NEW YORK

	
	 BY

	
	
 AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY








 SAFEWAY INC. 
 5.625% Note Due 2014 
  

	1.	General. 

  
 This Security is one of a duly authorized series of securities of the Company issued and to be issued under an Indenture, dated as of September 10, 1997,
as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture
and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, originally issued in $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount, subject to increase in accordance with the
Indenture (herein called the “Securities”). All terms used but not defined in this Security shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 
  

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of and interest on this Security at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. 
  

	2.	Indenture. 

  
 The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by the Officers’ Certificate dated August 12,
2004 delivered pursuant thereto and the TIA. The Securities are subject to all such terms, and the Securityholders are referred to the Indenture and said Act for a statement of them. 
  

	3.	Sinking Fund. 

  
 The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund and the Securities are not subject to redemption or repurchase by the Company at the option of the
Holders. 
  

	4.	Redemption. 

  
 The Securities are redeemable in whole or in part at the option of the Company at any time at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the
principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed; or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption)
discounted to the date of redemption on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points. In each case the Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the
principal amount being redeemed to the date of redemption. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Issue” means, with respect to any redemption date, the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities to be
redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption
date, (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Trustee obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, the average of all such quotations. 
  
 “Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time. 






 “Reference Treasury Dealer” means, with respect to any redemption date, Citigroup Global
Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and their respective successors, and one other firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer (each a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) which the Company
specifies from time to time; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer. 
  
 “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption
date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date. 
  
 “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date. 

 
 Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 but not more than 60 days
before the redemption date to each holder of record of the Securities to be redeemed at its registered address. 
  

	5.	Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. 

  
 This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of U.S. $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof. 
  
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein and herein set forth, the transfer, or the exchange for an equal principal amount, of this Security is registrable with the Registrar upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the
Registrar. 
  
 No service charge shall be made for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may, subject to certain exceptions, require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
  

	6.	Persons Deemed Owners. 

  
 Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Holder in whose name this Security is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  

	7.	Unclaimed Money. 

  
 The Trustee and any Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains
unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person. 
  

	8.	Defeasance Prior to Maturity. 

  
 The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance of (i) the entire indebtedness of the Securities or (ii) certain covenants and Events of Default with
respect to the Securities, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. 







	9.	Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. 

  
 Subject to certain limitations described in the Indenture, the Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into a supplemental indenture with
the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities), for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders. Subject to certain limitations described in the Indenture,
the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities) may waive compliance by the Company
with any provision of the Indenture or the Securities. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security. 
  

	10.	Restrictive Covenants. 

  
 The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ ability to create or incur certain Liens on any of their
respective properties or assets and to enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions and on the Company’s ability to engage in mergers or consolidations or the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of its properties
and assets. These limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions and reference is made to the Indenture for a description thereof. 
  

	11.	Defaults and Remedies. 

  
 If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities may be declared (or, in certain cases, shall ipso facto
become) due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. 
  

	12.	Proceedings. 

  
 As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding, judicial
or otherwise, with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy under the Indenture, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with
respect to the Securities and unless also the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding shall have made written request, and offered reasonable indemnity, to the Trustee to institute such
proceedings as trustee, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities at the time outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute such proceeding,
within 60 days. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of the principal hereof or any interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein. 

 

	13.	Trustee Dealings with Company. 

  
 The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it
would have if it were not Trustee. 
  

	14.	No Recourse Against Others. 

  
 A past, present or future director, officer, employee, shareholder or incorporator, as such, of the Company or any successor corporation shall not have
any liability for any obligations of the Company under this Security or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all
such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration of issuance of the Securities. 







	15.	Governing Law. 

  
 The internal laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and the Securities. 






 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this Security, shall be construed as though they
were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

					
	TEN COM - as tenants in common	 	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -             	 	Custodian             
	TEN ENT -as tenants by the entireties	 	                                       
 (Cust)	 	                    (Minor)
	 JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
	 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors	 	 
	 	 	Act                                      
  	 	 
	 	 	                    (State)	 	 

 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
  

  
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VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto 
  
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 this Security and all rights thereunder hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing 
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
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 to transfer this Security on the books of the Trustee, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

			
	Dated:                                     
       	 	

		
	 	 	  

 Notice: The signature(s) on this
Assignment must correspond with the name(s) as written upon the face of this Security in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.